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Author: The Deletist

Every time I wonder aloud if something is possible, or ruminate on a problem, somebody is quick to jump in with “there’s an app for that!” track expenses count calories measure your metabolic rate while sleeping perfect your memory If…

I’ve noticed that a lot of sync services work beautifully in one direction to save or backup. When deleting something, however, the services are largely asynchronous, meaning objects and services aren’t synced for deletion. Let’s look at a few examples…

We forget where we put things, people’s names or what we ate for breakfast this morning. Now we forget, in addition to the aforementioned things: documents we created what’s on our hard drives important email conversations the thousands of images…

Thinking back to how plans were made before cell phones (the regular “dumb” kind), I’m often surprised that today’s technology actually makes the process feel more cumbersome and drawn out. Plans used to be simple: Make plan. Call friend(s) and…

I have too many accounts. I feel like every time I’m on my laptop or a mobile device, I’m constantly having to login to something. Or reset a password. I find it hard to remember: all logins/passwords the existence of…